- As a French citizen associated from 1965 till 2003 with the French CNRS
– Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, lastly
as a senior (now emeritus) research director (Directeur de recherche
émérite, première classe) with an office in the Maison des
Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.

- Personal
assistant to Raymond Aron (1965-68) in his Centre de Sociologie
Européenne and since 1968 research fellow under the late Pierre Bourdieu
till his death in the Centre de Sociologie de l’Education et de la Culture (Paris, Ecole
des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and CNRS).

- Temporary lecturer at the RenéDescartesUniversity
(1968-1971)and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1977-1988)
in Paris, in the
latter with full entitlement to supervise PhD and other doctoral (doctorat
d’Etat) students.

- Thanks to an inter-state program of scholarly exchange between the
French CNRS and the Hungarian Academy of Science since 1972 research missions
in Hungary (usually a month yearly), permitting to launch my long term research
program on the historical study of educated elites. (No publications though in Hungary
till the fall of the Communist regime.)

- Since 1993, yearly courses taught at the newly founded CentralEuropeanUniversity in Budapest
(a graduate university, now with dual USA and Hungarian accreditation).
Member of the Department of History and (earlier) in the Nationalism Studies
Program as ‘permanent recurrent professor’ (emeritus since 2003).

- During the last academic years several 2 and 4 credit courses offered
at the CEU, focused on “Ethnic Inequalities of Modernization in Post-Feudal
Central Europe”, “Social History of Modern Central European Jewry”, “Elite
Education and Cultural Institutions in Central Europe”, “Historical Sociology
of Elites”, “Social Distinctions”, “Comparative History” (for PhD candidates).
At the CEU in charge of the supervision of a number of PhD students in social
history and historical sociology till my retirement in 2014.

As of the 1st Sept,
2008, appointed by the President of the HungarianRepublic titular University Professor
at the CentralEuropeanUniversity.

- Elected ‘External member’ of the HungarianAcademy of Science in 1993 and honored
by several state distinctions in Hungary (among them the Scheiber
Prize of Jewish studies – 2006).

- In charge during the last decade of a number of publicly funded
research ventures, among them :

- Educated Elites in Hungary(1867-1948), NKFP,
National Agency of Research and

Development (2004-2007).

- Jews and Non Jews in Pre-1918 University
Populations in Hungary,
funded by the Rothschild Foundation, London
(2007).

- The Prosopographical Study of Institutions of
Vocational Higher Education in Pre-

1918 Hungary, funded by the CEU Research Support Board (2007-2008).

- Medical Doctors in Hungay in the Pre-socialist
Regime, funding granted by the Hungarian research support agency OTKA for a
18 months programme starting in September 2008.

- In 2004-2006 significant funding received for
a large research project on elite formation in historic Hungary (1867-1919) from the
Hungarian Fund for Research Support (NKFP,
National Agency of Research and Development).

- In 2012 in
charge with an international team (including the co-director Professor Peter
Tibor Nagy – John Wesley Theological Academy in Budapest - and academic
partners from Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Slovakia and Serbia)
of a three year long ERC research project (Advanced Team Leadership Grant
2008), extended by three months (till 31 March 2012), on ‘Elite formation in
multi-cultural East Central European nation states (1900-1950)’. A series of
publications thereof are under preparation in an English language collection of
‘Research Reports on East-Central European History’ under the aegis of Pasts
Inc., Centre for Historical Research at the History Department of the CentralEuropeanUniversity and with the support of the
JohnWesleyTheologicalAcademy
in Budapest.

- Engaged since 2013 on a part time basis with a Hungarian partner,
Professor Peter Tibor Nagy (JohnWesleyTheologicalAcademy in Budapest) in a FP7 European collaborative
project (‘The future of Social Sciences and Humanities in the context of the
European Research Area’) – named INTERCO-SSH. This is an international venture
with Austrian, American (USA), Argentinian, Brazilian, British, Dutch, French,
Hungarian and Italian partners, managed by the French CNRS and the Parisian
staff of the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Sciences Politique (CNRS,
EHESSS, Université de Paris1 – Panthéon). We are in charge of the Hungarian
part of the project, with comparative references to the destinies of the social
sciences (institutional and intellectual developments) in Romania and Slovakia since 1945.

- Engaged with Dr Natalia Sigrist-Tikhonov in several recurrent SCOPES
projects funded by the Swiss Fund for Scientific Research, focusing on
East-West student exchange in Europe and the
modernization of the educational provision in East Central Europe. The most
recently granted funding concerns ‘Women in Elites and Elite Training in East
Central Europe’, to be completed in three years starting in July 2014.

- Convener (French partner) of international ‘standing workshops’ on the
sociology of science in the framework of the PAREX network (1971-1975), under
the sponsorship of the Parisian Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the
History of Science program of the University of Essex. (UK).

- French
partner in the the Arbeitsgruppe für Sozialgeschichte around Werner
Conze with Jürgen Kocka and Hartmut Kaelble – Frankfurt/M 1974-77.

- Convener of the first international conference on the social and
economic history of Central

European
Jewry (Paris, Maison des Sciences de l`Homme, 1985)

- Convener and organizer of international conferences on matters
educational in Central Europe in

- Participant in the European Workshop sponsored by German funds on elite
socialisation (Arenen der Elitenvergesellschaftung). Last conferences in
Pardubice (September 2003), study stay in Leipzig

(May 2004), conference in Wittenberg
(October 2005), followed by a collective publication.

- Organiser of a standing Hungarian workshop on educational inequalities
and elite training in

Hungary (1850-1948) together with Peter Tibor Nagy. With
Several publications ensuing.

- Organiser as senior advisor and convener of the first topical workshop
of an international team engaged in empirical (prosopographical) studies of
elites in East Central European nation states during the 19th and 20th century
(Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia), sponsored by the Swiss National
Fund for Scientific Research (Program SCOPES) in a three years programme
(2006-2009).

- Convener of three international gatherings in Budapest
under the aegis of PastsInc.Center for Historical Studies at the History Department of the
CEU : ‘Legacies of Empires, Jews after the 1st World War in Central
Europe’ (2005, co-sponsored with the European Science Foundation), ‘East-West
student exchange in Europe before 1914’,
(2005) ‘Elite formation in modern Transylvania’. (2006).

- Convener of a major international conference in Budapest (CEU) on
‘Elite formation in new nation states before 1939’ (4-6 May 2007),
sponsored by the European Science Foundation – with participants from Austria,
Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Serbia
and Slovakia). (Proceedings selectively published in Historical Social
Research, 2008, 33, no. 2.)

- Associate convener of an international workshop at the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes Européennes in Geneva (April
2011) on the prosopographical study of student populations and scholarly
exchange in Europe before 1940.

- Convener and organiser of an international workshop on ‘Jews in
Pre-Socialist Elites in Eastern and Central Europe’, sponsored by the Twentieth
Anniversary Fund of the Central European University (Budapest, CEU, October,
2011).

- Convener and organiser of a preparatory workshop for an ERC application
for Advanced Investigator’s Grant on ‘Reputational Elites in Small European
Societies’, sponsored by the CEU (Budapest, CEU, February 2012).

- Associate convener and main
organizer of the joint international conference sponsored by the CentralEuropeanUniversity and the INTERCO-SSH
research project (Hungarian partner : JohnWesleyTheologicalAcademy in Budapest)
:The Social Sciences since 1945 in East and West :
Continuities, Discontinuities, Institutionalization and Internationalization (Budapest, CEU, April,
2015).

Pavia, University
of Pavia, memorial conference on
‘Universities after the unification of Italy’, Introductory lecture on
“Universities and Nation States”, 11. June, 2011.

Campinas, University
of Campinas, Brasilia,
College of Education. 26-28 March, 2012. Conference
on ‘International Circulation and the formation of leading social groups’.
Lecture on ‘The heritage of early universities and the social inequalities of
elite training in modern Europe’.

(with Lucian Nastasa), ed. The University of Kolozsvár/Cluj and the
Students of the Medical Faculty (1872-1918), Cluj, Ethnocultural Diversity
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77. « Assimilation and Schooling : National
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151. "Jewish identity strategies under duress,
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New York and Budapest, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of
Science, Boulder (Colorado), Social Science Monographs, distributed by Columbia
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153. “Jewish Entrepreneurship and Identity under
Capitalism and Socialism in Central Europe : the Unresolved Dilemmas of
Hungarian Jewry ”, in Daniel Chirot and Antony Reid, (eds.), Essential Outsiders, Chinese and Jews in the
Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe, Seattle, The
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160. "Denomination and Ethnicity in Industrial
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170. “Aspects
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201. «‘The
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207. « A kolozsvári egyetem
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